Showing posts with label anselm kiefer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anselm kiefer. Show all posts

Saturday, June 26, 2010

land between two rivers















































the books of anselm kiefer 1969-1990 - george braziller - 1990/1991

was finally able to acquire a copy of the good book (the book of books), though it cost me a weeks pay.
first checked this book out of the massart library as a wee lad, such an influence the good book has had on my life......

some titles
- the heavens
- barren landscapes
- marble landscapes
- shards
- the burning of the rural district of buchen
- piet mondrian - operation "sea lion"
- brandenburg sand
- teutoburg forest
- midsummer's night
- trip through the country
- the rhine
- isis and osiris
- heavy water
- way across the red sea
- through the center of the earth
- the night, when isis weeps
- birth of the sun
- shulamith

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

trains in cinema, or fludd's memory system











new train film by matthew swiezynski: fludd's memory system
(all titles from frances a. yates' fine book the art of memory)


related images from robert fludd's the macrocosm, 1617 & 1618:

the great darkness

the appearance of light

the division of the waters

let there be light



anselm kiefer: fur robert fludd


for more information on robert fludd, see joscelyn godwin's book robert fludd: hermetic philosopher and surveyor of two worlds